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by jonhohle 6mo ago
Ok, replace Charmin with a toilet paper startup disrupting the industry. They wouldn’t be given a pass either. Still disgusting. It should probably be noted that if there’s no agreement, collecting telemetry without opt-in probably violates
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by jonhohle 6mo ago
I’m in the middle of using the courts to get State Farm to make me whole. Even at the small claims level, the law and procedures are stacked against the non-lawyer. There is an obvious power imbalance and it’s exploited because most won’t e
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by jonhohle 6mo ago
If Charmin put sensors in toilet paper rolls to optimize the wiping experience, it would be dystopian. Why do we give software a pass? Privacy is a right not a telemetry problem and opt-out by default is non-consensual surveillance.
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by jonhohle 6mo ago
I thought I had read that too and went to look for clarification and found that they’re just moving to a single architecture for their cards. Seemed reasonable.
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by jonhohle 6mo ago
Maybe that’s not a good way to verify someone’s identity then…
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by jonhohle 6mo ago
Yes! And Zip Disk support. I have an app that has to detect different external media types and have a pile of old drives that work just fine.
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by jonhohle 6mo ago
I think the preference is to have a battery that can run a CPU that's compiling, AI-ing, or rendering for an entire day (16+ hours) without having to worry about where an outlet is or being tethered to a wall or be thermal throttled. R
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by jonhohle 6mo ago
Sucked compared to what? My OS X life began shortly before Panther, and coming from a Linux laptop everything was better. Compared to Windows XP, everything in Panther was better. Panther on a 1GHz TiBook was amazing compared to anything el
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by jonhohle 6mo ago
On macOS there are so many basic things you’d want to do - share itineraries, annotate places, keep lists of things, but there’s not even a document concept. With the exception of guides, anything you do is ephemeral. It’s excellent at plan
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by jonhohle 6mo ago
It’s so sad. Circa 2003 OS X wasn’t just good it was amazing. Nearly Movie OS quality. Every release the quality goes down. Every migration to SwiftUI more and more AppKit standard feature get lost.
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by jonhohle 6mo ago
So we can’t trust simple things like back-button hijacking, so let’s open up access to all attached hardware. Sounds stupid.
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by jonhohle 6mo ago
I recently found his fingerprint algorithm and wrote a utility that uses it to find duplicate MIPS code for decompilation[0] and build unique identifiers that can be used to find duplicates without sharing any potentially copyrighted data[1
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by jonhohle 6mo ago
Isn’t that what MoCa is for?
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by jonhohle 6mo ago
If they’re recycling it, what does it matter if it boots? The aluminum is worth nothing? I’m sure there’s bits of gold and other things.
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by jonhohle 6mo ago
> That is not a technology problem. It is a marketplace problem. I cringe every time I see this sentence structure. I know the joke is about emdashes, but the “Its not …. It’s ….” drives me crazy.
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by jonhohle 6mo ago
One thing I've not seen mentioned when people talk about moving to an owned domain is what happens when you don't own it anymore? There are a million services that assume that if you have access to the email content you are the ac
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by jonhohle 6mo ago
I don’t think the Grateful Dead would be referred to as a “live electronic dance band.” Assuming it’s a band most have heard of I was leaning toward Daft Punk, but maybe the Prodigy?
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by jonhohle 6mo ago
How do you know how often those files need to be backed up without reading them? Timestamps and sizes are not reliable, only content hashes. How do you get a content hash? You read the file.
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by jonhohle 6mo ago
Doesn’t compute. He probably meant that “customer” is not making him money, therefore not worth the time. The only reason unsubscribing works at all is probably a legal requirement.
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by jonhohle 6mo ago
Yeah, this was an off article that half I completely disagreed with, a quarter is probably accurate, and the other quarter I don’t know anything about. Zion is amazing. One of my favorites. We found a great dry riverbed trail and saw no one
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by jonhohle 7mo ago
I can’t find it now, but there was a Start Menu/Taskbar for Mac OS 9 era Mac’s as well. It was bizarre.
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by jonhohle 7mo ago
I’ve held onto FireWire for long and feel attached to it. I’ve used it for over 25 years. I think I feel the same way about TiVo and fear the day the guide stops updating or the motherboard fails (everything else in the box is replaceable).
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by jonhohle 7mo ago
Same. I’m middle age and type in a lot of non-ergonomic positions and always have. It works for me.
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by jonhohle 7mo ago
Heterogeneity is the feature. The Linux ecosystem is better off for it (systemd, Wayland, dconf, epoll, inotify are all based on ideas that were in OS X first) and not being beholden to Linux is a competitive advantage for Apple everyone w
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by jonhohle 7mo ago
For me at least, not being Linux is a feature. Linux has always been “almost Unix” to the point where now it has become its own thing for better or worse. OS X was never trying to be Linux. It would be better if we still had a few more comm
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by jonhohle 7mo ago
25 years ago one of early engineering courses included a case study about Ingersol Rand (IIRC). They went out to work floors and saw how all the workers had modified their air wrenches in the same way, adding padding with tape in various ar
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by jonhohle 7mo ago
Perforce had change sets and there were lots of tools for code reviews that worked a lot like GitHub before GitHub (review board, phabricator, another one I can’t remember).
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by jonhohle 7mo ago
This works for programming as well. I’ve spent countless hours reimplementing things or cloning things just to learn how they work. Sometimes mine is better than the original, sometimes it’s not. But regardless, I learn a lot along the way
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by jonhohle 7mo ago
Buy why that much? The first computer I bought had 192MB of RAM and I ran a 1600x1200 desktop with 24-bit color. When Windows 2000 came out, all of the transparency effects ran great. Office worked fine, Visual Studio, 1024x768 gaming (I kn
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by jonhohle 7mo ago
You were not prevented from doing anything, but that doesn’t mean others weren’t. For example, OEMs were not allowed to offer any other preinstalled OS as a default option. That effectively killed Be and I’m sure hindered RedHat.

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